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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

First of all, holy crap! You mean to tell us that it took this long to come to trail and reach any kind of verdict?

William "Willis" Miettinen is the shirtless dude (hell,he's pretty much always shirtless for some reason) seigheiling with Robert Reitmeier, Terry Tremaine,John Marleau, Chris Waters (big guy wearing thewhite tent) and other assorted boneheads in a phototaken after the 2008 "White Pride" march in Calgary

Second, "suspected white supremacist"? Oh, we do believe we've cleared that one up on a few occassions already (such as here, here, here, and here).

Sunday, June 24, 2012

ARC hasn't spoken much about Bill Noble, though we have noted that he has left his son and that son's mother back in Calgary when he relocated to Winnipeg. He's still active in the movement, if operating a mostly moribund webform for a group who's leader is currently in jail is active. But he's still giving young up-and-comer "boneheads" advice:

But there has been something interesting that has happened.

Bill has a new girlfriend who seems to be exercising some level of influence on him.

With
the repeal this month of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act
(CHRA), which dealt specifically with hate speech on the Internet,
regulating poisonous and hateful attacks against minorities is now left
to the Criminal Code. Where in the past S13 was a less intrusive and at
times educational method of dealing with hate speech, now any such
complaints will be handled by police with jail time and a criminal
record as a possible outcome.

A key figure who utilized S13 to
help defend ethnic and faith minorities against toxic speech is a friend
and a person I consider a hero, Richard Warman. Sadly instead of
gratitude Richard was victimized for his efforts.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Mr. Levant railed against Chiquita Brands International in December, after it said it would stop using fuel from Alberta's oil sands. Mr. Levant challenged the company's ethical record, but the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council was more concerned with a portion of the show when he stared into the camera and told a company executive "Hey you, yeah you, Manuel Rodriguez. Chinga tu madre."

Monday, June 18, 2012

Long time readers of this blog will know that we have discussed white supremacist/nationalist who are either active members of the Canadian military or who wish to enlist. As a reminder, might we suggest these articles:

OTTAWA — Canadian Forces intelligence officers have
been warned that a U.S. white supremacist group is expanding into this
country and that military members could be attracted to the
organization.

Officers with the National Counter-Intelligence Unit
were told about the expansion of such groups into the Canadian Forces,
as well as the attraction these groups have for members of the Forces,
during a meeting of specialists looking into hate crimes and extremists
movements. “Many of the conference speakers and attendees were aware of
serving or retired DND/CF members that are part of these groups,” the
counter-intelligence summary report from January 2011 pointed out.

However, it wasn't until the beating of Rodney King made headlines that I came to understand that systemic racism was pervasive in institutions that were supposed to be color blind.

Rodney King wasn't a saint. He himself admitted that he struggled with demons and in one of his last interviews he stated that he would always struggle with sobriety. In other words, he was as human as any one of us. But the assault he endured on March 3, 1991 did serve to make very public a reality that primarily Black men had been systematically targeted because of their ethnicity.

We here at ARC hope that Rodney King finds the peace that he struggled to find in life.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Earlier today, we were contacted by "Maclean's" and asked about our take on the demise of Sec. 13. We responded as follows:

We think
that the government was incredibly short sighted in their decision to eliminate
Sec. 13. It was a useful and cost-effective tool in the effort to eliminate
some very vile, hateful, and potentially dangerous rhetoric online and in the
public sphere. Now we have only the criminal code which, in a few cases, is
like using a machete when a scalpel would have been more prudently utilized.

Those
individuals and groups who were called before the Human Rights Tribunal and who
were found to have violated Sec. 13 were not innocent lambs who were victimized
by Big Brother. They were people and groups who were causing real harm in their
communities. Their words did result in harm, and I don't mean hurt feelings.
People's homes were vandalized. People have been assaulted. And these criminal
acts had, in many cases, began with the dehumanization of fellow Canadians for
no other reason than their ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual orientation.

The people
who are celebrating this are the extremists on Stormfront and VNN and a host of
other racist webforums, but as we wrote on our blog they should consider that
now there is only the criminal code and the penalties are more severe than
anything Sec. 13 dished out. It should also be noted that racists aren't
content with only Sec. 13. Paul Fromm, for instance, has said he and his
group will next focus their attention on the criminal code sections regarding
hate crimes.

We get the impression that the "Maclean's" in which Sec. 13 will be discussed is coming out this week. We don't expect that our entire response will be published, or if any of it will be for that matter, but if it is we thought we'd include the entirely of our response here.

And as for the responses from the boneheads, we present a small selection:

I saw your call out for old documents from the white supremacist movement, so I'm sending you pictures for two documents I came across that I thought might be of interest.They're anti-Edmund Burke Society/Western Guard flyers from the 1970s created by a Toronto group called the Revolutionary Marxist Group and feature good ol' Paul Fromm fairly prominently.

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

It still needs to pass through the senate, but we're sure that is likely a formality.

A bit short sighted, but not exactly the end of the world either.

We understand the boneheads might be very happy, but they should consider the fact that Sec. 13 and the CHRT were used instead of the criminal code in many cases.

Acts of hate speech are serious crimes that should be investigated by
police officers, not civil servants, he said, and the cases should be
handled by “real judges and real lawyers,” instead of a quasi-judicial
body like the human rights commission.

I first came across Ray Bradbury as a child on the Movie Channel. "The Ray Bardbury Theater" was an anthology based on his short stories. They were scary, eerie, funny, and filled me with a sense of awe about the mysteries of the universe that we never really think about. Later I devoured his short stories and novels. In fact, they were the first books I chose to look for and read when I was allowed to go to the, "grown up" section of the library. Ray Bradbury is who caused me to fall in love with books.

At 91 years old, it isn't a surprise that he passed on, but it still hurts. More than I had thought it would.

On February 26, 2004, Don Logan of the Scottsdale, Arizona Office of Diversity and Dialogue, severely injuring him. After a 5 year investigation, Dennis Mahon, his twin brother Daniel and one other man were arrested on June 26, 2009 and charged in the mail bombing. On May 22, Dennis Mahon, who had been found guilty in February, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. At 61 years, he is likely to die in prison.

Saturday, June 02, 2012

When we first heard that Luka Rocco Magnotta was the prime suspect in the murder and dismemberment of Jun Lin, there were a few things we knew for certain. Such as the fact that he was a gay pornstar who dated Karla Homolka once she was released from prison.

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